-- An independent UK publisher specialising
in subsidy publishing, new authors and books for special interest groups.
Not exact matches
Today the muckraking International Business Times
published Freedom of Information Law requests to the governor's office and the Empire State Development Corporation
in which the Cuomo administration says it «is not
in possession of any documents» relating to offers of
subsidies to General Electric.
A study of survival rates
in trauma patients following health insurance reform
in Massachusetts found a passing increase
in adjusted mortality rates, an unexpected finding suggesting that simply providing insurance incentives and
subsidies may not improve survival for trauma patients, according to a report
published online by JAMA Surgery.
John Reynolds, an SFU biologist, and Michelle Nelson, one of his doctoral students, have just had their paper «Time - delayed
subsidies: Interspecies population effects
in salmon»
published in PLOS ONE, an international peer - reviewed journal.
A study
published today, by a group led by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), indicates that eliminating fossil fuel
subsidies could curb global greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 5 % through 2030 while saving hundreds of billions of dollars
in public money.
Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, and one of the most
published researchers on the topic, writes
in recent letter to the editor of the Times that, «Publicly funded preschool, currently offered through Head Start, state programs or child care
subsidies, returns modest benefits for low - income children.»
As reported
in Weiland and Yoshikawa's
published paper, for most student outcomes at kindergarten entrance, the estimated effects of pre-K did not differ significantly with student eligibility for lunch
subsidies.
Subsidy Publishing You can get your book
published in a format that looks just like what a commercial publisher would put out (or at least close)... for a small (or not - so - small) fee.
However, as Joel Friedman pointed out
in a recent post about
subsidy publishing, all is not perfect
in the indie
publishing world.
In many of the above discussions, there has oftentimes been a use of the terms e-
publishing, self -
publishing and vanity /
subsidy publishing interchangeably, but there are vast differences between those three types of
publishing.
In a recent WBJB
Publishing Basics Radio interview with Jan Nathan, the Executive Director of PMA, Jan was asked the question, «What type of publishing (vanity, subsidy, traditional, small press, independent) best describe places like Author House, Xlibris and
Publishing Basics Radio interview with Jan Nathan, the Executive Director of PMA, Jan was asked the question, «What type of
publishing (vanity, subsidy, traditional, small press, independent) best describe places like Author House, Xlibris and
publishing (vanity,
subsidy, traditional, small press, independent) best describe places like Author House, Xlibris and IUniverse?
Self -
publishing can be more cost effective than
subsidy publishing and may result
in a higher - quality product (or at least something that is more appealing to you).
Subsidy -
published books are usually not considered professional by people or organizations
in the
publishing industry, so they won't help you much if you're interested
in a career as an author.
Many of these companies call themselves «
subsidy» or even «indie» companies, and some even have «free» setup fees, but just know that
in self -
publishing, you will be paying the vanity publisher.
Even if you want to avoid the pejorative, there's a name:
Subsidy publishing, as
in, the author subsidizes the so - called publisher, thus assuming all the risk.
In the book
publishing world, these companies are referred to as
subsidy or vanity presses.
These underlying issues aside, efforts to promote translations of Russian works through programs such as «Read Russia,» which offers sample translations and
subsidies, have resulted
in 640 translations from the Russian that have been
published with state assistance over the last five years.
Self -
publishing can be more cost - effective than vanity or
subsidy publishing and can result
in a much higher - quality product, because authors can put every aspect of the process out to bid rather than accepting a preset package of services
Learn the smart way to self -
publish a book without dealing with a
subsidy press, or ending up with thousands of dollars caught up
in inventory and a garage full of dusty books.
POD (which stands for print on demand) /
subsidy publishing is the denigrated vanity
publishing of yesteryear dressed up
in the Emperor's New Clothes.
This has led to a subset of the self -
publishing trend... the rise
in «assisted self -
publishing» or «
subsidy publishing» from companies such as Ecademy Press and AuthorHouse.
Subsidy presses have a stigma
in the book -
publishing world.
Here, for the first time ever, dozens of leaders
in the self -
publishing industry — editors, designers, book shepherds, printers, teachers, publicists, marketers,
subsidy publishers, workshop leaders, illustrators, reviewers — have come together to share their knowledge of the dynamic, ever - changing indie book
publishing business.
«As a
subsidy publisher we help many first time authors get started
in the
publishing world.
Those books do have the
subsidy taint
in the industry if anyone finds out, and sometimes the taint also extends to the books those presses are
publishing in the normal way.
In the world of self -
publishing, there is a very clear and practical definition of vanity /
subsidy publishing versus print - on - demand.
False choice number two: You can use a
subsidy publisher or learn all the
ins nd outs of
publishing.
Understand this: If you pay a publisher to
publish your book, and that publisher uses its own ISBN on your book, you have not self -
published — you are
in what is called a «pay - to -
publish» operation; a
subsidy publisher; or a vanity press.
Many of the so - called «self -
publishing» companies out there today are just vanity /
subsidy presses
in disguise.
Finally, if you're interested
in the
publishing system I use to make my living, and for which I've walked away from many trade contract offers, I summed it all up in «Print - on - Demand Book Publishing», not to be confused with subsidy p
publishing system I use to make my living, and for which I've walked away from many trade contract offers, I summed it all up
in «Print - on - Demand Book
Publishing», not to be confused with subsidy p
Publishing», not to be confused with
subsidy publishingpublishing.
A report examining the roughly $ 8 billion
in subsidies that have flowed from the European Union or Spanish taxpayers to Spain's fishing fleet since 2000 was
published over the weekend by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
The idea that fossil fuels benefit from both direct and indirect
subsidies has been around for years, but analysis has generally been done
in pieces (some of it done very well — Nancy Pfund and Ben Healy at DBL Investors
published an excellent analysis of direct
subsidies in the U.S. a couple years back) or without complete data robust enough to stand up to critique.
Former OMB analyst Ken Glozer demolishes the energy - security rationale for ethanol
subsidies in Corn Ethanol: Who Pays, Who Benefits (April 2011),
published by the conservative Hoover Institution.
A report
published in September by Climate Action Network Europe and ODI identified 87
subsidies and support measures and estimated the total support to fossil fuel production, including through fiscal support and public finance, was nearly EUR 36 billion a year between 2014 and 2016.
State royalties and
subsidies According to Table 4
in the mining operations spreadsheet
published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics,
in 2014 - 15 Australia - wide coal royalties were $ 2.8 billion and petroleum (oil plus gas) royalties were $ 1.9 billion.
An August 13, 2001 article by Keith Johnson
published in The Wall Street Journal Europe forecasted a slowdown
in wind energy development
in the wind energy
subsidy - rich nations of the U.S., Germany, Spain and Denmark which together account for more than 75 % the worldís installed wind energy capacity:... But now, it seems, the glory days may be past.
In November, one Harvard Law professor, Jonathan Zittrain, wrote an article rethinking his previous support for the law and declared it has become, in effect, «a subsidy» for the tech giants, who don't bear the costs of ensuring the content they publish is accurate and fai
In November, one Harvard Law professor, Jonathan Zittrain, wrote an article rethinking his previous support for the law and declared it has become,
in effect, «a subsidy» for the tech giants, who don't bear the costs of ensuring the content they publish is accurate and fai
in effect, «a
subsidy» for the tech giants, who don't bear the costs of ensuring the content they
publish is accurate and fair.